Protected In Our World and BAFTA Video games are collaborating as soon as extra to convey us the second Video games Psychological Well being Summit, an occasion devoted to driving constructive change within the video games trade round psychological well-being. The 2 charities determined to rerun the summit for 2024 after the success of final 12 months’s inaugural occasion.
For those who haven’t heard of Safe In Our World, it’s a charity each by and for gaming professionals, based by video games trade veterans who’re keen about psychological well being consciousness within the sector. The charity launched in 2019 with the preliminary purpose of making a web-based hub for folks to entry help and has since branched out into different initiatives, together with working with Ubisoft on the Good Sport Playbook to deal with on-line toxicity, and the Video games Psychological Well being Summit with BAFTA Video games.
The Video games Psychological Well being Summit brings collectively video games trade professionals and psychological well being clinicians to handle a wide range of subjects linked to gaming and psychological well-being via panel talks, keynotes, workshops, and extra. This 12 months’s particular subjects embody “compassionate management, burnout, toxicity and harassment, and the best way to enact change within the office.”
Luke Hebblethwaite, Head of Video games at BAFTA says, “With the mixed power and nice work of each charities, we need to proceed to drive ahead dialog and tangible motion in our trade on psychological well being. Whether or not at a private or company degree, there’s nonetheless a lot for us all to study and there’s by no means been a greater time to get began than now.”
When is the Video games Psychological Well being Summit?
This 12 months’s Video games Psychological Well being Summit takes place on June 3, 2024, at BAFTA’s HQ in London. Tickets can be found to the general public for £15 (£12 for concessions) on the BAFTA website. For those who’re unable to attend bodily for any purpose, you’ll be able to nonetheless catch the panel discussions and keynote speeches on the BAFTA YouTube channel just a few days after the occasion.
Keep tuned to Protected In Our World and BAFTA Video games’ social media pages for speaker bulletins within the subsequent couple of weeks.
Right here’s hoping that the Video games Psychological Well being Summit sticks round for the foreseeable future. In different trade information, you catch the UK debut of Squad Busters at WASD, or submit your cellular recreation ardour venture to Develop:Brighton’s Indie Showcase 2024.